Dana is Chief Operating Officer of Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh, where she supports the work of professionals resettling refugees, helping detained immigrant children, feeding the hungry, finding people jobs, caregivers and guardians and encouraging people facing every manner of life’s challenges. Previously in her career, Dana founded four non-profits.

In Pittsburgh she founded Bridge House, a halfway house for men struggling to overcome homelessness and then, Sojourner House, where she worked with women and their children, battling to regain their families, torn apart by addiction. The other two organizations Gold created support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in South Africa.